Mike B.
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This past weekend the weather was really nice here. I shot subs of five different objects on Friday and Saturday. I'm still trying to recuperate from those 2 all-nighters. lol
One of the objects I shot was the Blackeye Galaxy, M64. Since I used only 812mm of F.L., the galaxy was pretty small in the full-frame stack of sub-images. So, I reprocessed it in IRIS with Drizzle at a 2X enlargement setting. Check out the results I got after a close-crop:
M64, The Blackeye Galaxy. 18x180 sec @ ISO 800, 21x180 sec @ ISO 1600. Meade SN-8, MPCC, IDAS-LPS, Hutech Canon 350XT.
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thelittleman
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Mike you are killing me with the number of images you are turning out - I haven't seen clear skies for weeks!
Very nice image and loads of detail - yet another one to add the the forever growing list 
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Tim in GA
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Amazing! I agree with Peter - I've been out once in 2 months.
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wrather1
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Doggone nice shot, Mike B.!
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Top notch image Mike, Congrats.
You continue to impress with that SN.
NH
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AleX`G
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Wow i dont think ive seen this galaxy before. Looks very cool and quite alot of detail in teh centre
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DaveD
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Very nice Mike. Awesome detail and color.
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Dave M
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Wow! Thats amazing, great job.
I havnt been out due to clouds since November, i need
a fafafix..
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ChazK
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Great shot for such a small object. "Drizzle"??
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Mike B.
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Great shot for such a small object. "Drizzle"??
Thanks!
Drizzle will let you get more detail by simulating a finer pixel grid for the stacked output image. In my case, twice as many pixels as a normal stack. Drizzle was the technique used to get the detail in the Hubble Deepest Field image.
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s58y
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Excellent image of M64 -- how much more detail can you see in the drizzled image compared to a plain (un-drizzled) enlarged/cropped image?
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Mike B.
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Excellent image of M64 -- how much more detail can you see in the drizzled image compared to a plain (un-drizzled) enlarged/cropped image?
I have an image stacked the normal way here. It was scaled 2X and then reduced to match the size of the drizzled image at the start of this thread.
This was about the best I could get it detail wise.
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Wow! 
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that's bleepen cool, great shot!
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ChazK
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Thanks for the info......
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Mike, I also own a Rebel XT. Haven't done any deep sky objects yet. Just curious, what is the maximum exposure time you would recommend with the sensor in that camera?
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Mike B.
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Mike, I also own a Rebel XT. Haven't done any deep sky objects yet. Just curious, what is the maximum exposure time you would recommend with the sensor in that camera?
The maximum I have done is 10 minutes for a single image. It was a limit imposed more by my mount's tracking performance and the local light pollution levels than the camera's limits, however.
I think the Canon 350XT's maximum exposure is only limited by the available power to keep the shutter open, but I could be wrong. I know some that have done 20 minute exposures with the Canon DSLR's, but I would consider that the upper limit from a practical standpoint.
I routinely use 2.5 minutes to 5 minutes for exposures on Deep Sky objects. That gives pretty good results and I can take enough exposures of one object to reduce the noise as much as possible in the final stacked image.
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AviddayM
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That's a nice image. Nice work
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Extraordinary!!!..... 
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NICE !! Great shot Mike ! I really see the difference using the drizzle technique. The detail you got is quite extraordinary.
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